Uncle Waffles Explains How She Came Up With Her Stage Name.Not only has she captured everyone’s attention with her amazing DJing skills, but she also knows how to keep the crowd entertained with her next-level dance moves.And just like that, Uncle Waffles has become the hottest thing on the internet, catapulting her into viral fame.
Speaking on how her stage name came about, the DJ said: “My friends used to call me Waffles in high school because of the [Cartoon Network show] “Teen Titans,” where they would sing a song called “Waffles, Waffles, Waffles”. My friends decided to start calling me Waffles. Then when I joined Instagram after high school, they were like, “You know, this uncle [trend] is really cool right now.” So it just went from an Instagram handle that I used to use to my DJ name now.”
She didn’t have the easiest upbringing and was raised by her grandmother. The DJ never knew her parents and only much later was able to reconcile with her mother.She has since moved to South Africa and is now based in SA.
While interning at a local Eswatini TV station in 2020, Lungelihle Zwane stumbled upon 15-year-old DJ decks, which a DJ who often visited the office then taught her to use. Having grown up on South African house and kwaito acts like Black Coffee, Lebo Mathosa and DJ Kent, Zwane studied the rising amapiano movement — a South African subgenre of house and piano-led jazz — that was hitting clubs right before lockdown.
